Parent’s popular commerce profession is CA-Chartered Accountant. This course has a very tough examination that takes years to clear. Being a chartered accountant you can have flexible working hours. You always have the option to join a firm or open your own firm as you wish. You can be a Chartered accountant only based on how hard and smartly you have worked and how you have cultivated your accounting skills. There are Three levels that are needed to be cleared to become a chartered accountant. Last part is articleship and it is an essential part of the study.
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai is an Indian business executive, chartered accountant and banker. Previously she was a general manager and the country head of HSBC, India. Right now, she is the president of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Nationality
- Indian
Alma mater
- University of Delhi (BA)
- Harvard Business School (MBA)
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Occupation
- Banker
- Chartered accountant
Title
- Ex-CEO and Country Head of HSBC India
Edgar Benson
Edgar John Benson was also known as ‘Ben’. He was having PC, FCA, BComm degrees. And, He was a Canadian businessman, diplomat, professor and a politician. He held four cabinet positions and most importantly of Minister of Finance, Peirre Trudeau (under). There he was useful in reforming Canada’s income tax law.
Alma mater
- Queen’s University (1949)
Profession
- Chartered Accountant (1952)
Fred Goodwin
Frederick Anderson Goodwin is a Scottish chartered accountant and banker. Previously he was the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland group.
Nationality
- Scottish
Occupation
- Chartered accountant
- Businessman
Title
- CEO of RBS Group
Saifur Rahman
Mohammad Saifur Rahman was a leader of the Bangladeshi Nationalist party and was the Economist and a politician. He is the longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh.
Alma mater
- Dhaka University
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Occupation
- Chartered accountant
Jonathan Chadwick
Jonathan Chadwick is executive vice president of VMware. He is the chief finance officer at (VMware) also. Before that he was the chief financial officer of the company Skype and he was the corporate vice President of Microsoft corporation.
Norman Betts
Norman M. Betts is a Chartered Accountant, professor, and present provincial politician. Norman graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1978 as a Bachelor of Business.
Alma mater
- University of New Brunswick, Queen’s University
Occupation
- Chartered Accountant, University Professor, Politician
Edmund Ho
Edmund Ho Hau Wah is a Macanese politician, who was the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region. He presently is a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference.
Alma mater
- York University (B.B.A.)
Profession
- Chartered accountant (CA)
Justine Greening
Justine Greening is a British politician who had served as a Secretary of State for Education and as the Member of Parliament for Putney. She was first elected as a Conservative MP. She had the Conservative whip removed in 2019 and became an independent MP after that.
Alma mater
- University of Southampton
- London Business School
John James
John James Wrathall was a Rhodesian politician. He was the last white President of Rhodesia. He formerly worked as a chartered accountant in Rhodesia.
Alma mater
- Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Profession
- Chartered accountant
T. N. Manoharan
T. N. Manoharan is Indian chairman of Canara Bank which is one of the largest public sector banks in India. He is a chartered accountant (CA) and the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Nationality
- India
Alma mater
- University of Madras
- Sri Venkateswara University, Andhra Pradesh
- Fellow Chartered Accountant
- Law graduate from Madras Law College, University of Madras, India.
Occupation
- Chairman of Canara Bank
Conclusion
CA profession is very challenging yet in demand. Many people go for this journey on their parent’s demand or because of their friend, which is totally wrong. You should be passionate enough and willing to invest your time in the hardwork it takes. To motivate you for the hardship in the course of chartered accountant studies, I have mentioned two quotes by well known and dignified chartered accountants as below.
“Very often in our society, people who have achieved success tend to place a premium on being vainglorious and bumptious. It pays, in my view, to be generous and large of heart and mind. Bumptiousness Never pays. “
–Naina Lal Kidwai
“You should be willing to bang your head against the wall until you find the solution.”
–TV Mohandas Pai
Naina Lal Kidwai and TV Mohandas Pai have said very much true in their quotes. Whatever quotes we seek motivation from, are made up of experiences which are hard to acquire at the starting point of any journey.
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